Re: [asa] A parable of three investors

From: Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Mon Oct 30 2006 - 21:50:56 EST

Glenn:
Thank you for your reply -- and for all the other stuff you have
contributed to this forum. I shall not ask any more questions of you.
God bless you.
Don

Glenn Morton wrote:

>TIME OUT. I AM ONCE AGAIN ANSWERING A REPLY TO MY POST TO THIS LIST, YET MY
>ORIGINAL POST NEVER WAS DISTRIBUTED TO THE LIST MEMBERS. If this list can't
>get my original posts delivered before I start having to reply to them, then
>I see little reason to continue here. This is unacceptable as far as I am
>concerned.
>
>Most will probably cheer, but this will be my last post. No reason to
>continue when most of my replies lie hidden away, never distributed. By for
>now.
>
>10-30-06
>
>
>>Thank you, Glenn. My follow up questions are the following. If it is
>>important for God to tell us, in the Book of Genesis, something about
>>physical reality that he has left us incapable of finding out by
>>ourselves, why did he not do so in an unambiguous manner ,
>>leaving you
>>and Dick no need to argue about it? Is it possible that it was not
>>important for God to do this?
>>Don
>>
>>
>
>I do think we need to distinguish between important for God and important
>for me. It may not be important for God to tell us anything at all,
>including the true theology that everyone assumes this factually false
>account gives us. In such a case, we have no way to determine the true deity
>or the true theology or the true creator with any form of rational thought.
>Religion then becomes one grand game of fideism--I believe it there for it
>is true.
>
>My point is this: if there is zero ability to verify anything about any
>account involving God's activity, then we are mere prisoners of what our
>parents believed, what our culture believes, or what religion we have become
>sick of and are now seeking a new fideistic game.
>
>Basically, you haven't responded to my dissection of the communication
>chain. WHICH NEVER WAS POSTED!!!
>
>As to why God left Dick and I to argue with each other, the only thing I can
>think of is that both of us were mass murderers in our previous lives.
>
>
>glenn
>They're Here: The Pathway Papers
>Foundation, Fall, and Flood
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>
>http://home.entouch.net/dmd/dmd.htm
>
>
>
>

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